Digital Tutors - Your First Day Painting Textures in Mudbox

Duration 2h 25m Level Intermediate Project Files Included

On your first day working in any new application, getting up and running producing great artwork can be challenging. This course is specifically geared toward Mudbox users who are ready to take their first step into painting textures for their assets.

We will focus not just on teaching you the tools you?ll need to know about but also how you can begin to work efficiently to produce amazing textures. After setting up our scene with some custom materials, we?ll dive right into the basic painting tools while learning how to begin with our darkest colors and work towards our lightest. We?ll focus heavily on using layers and channels as we begin building our diffuse map followed by bump, specular and incandescence.

1. Introduction and project overview

2. Material and UV creation

3. Basic painting and erasing

4. Painting with stamps

5. Masking paint layers

6. Painting the base color for the back spots

7. Painting detail for the back spots

8. Painting the spikes

9. Painting the base color for the armor

10. Scratching up the armor

11. Adding decals to the armor

12. Finishing the armor diffuse with dirt

13. Painting the sclera

14. Painting the iris and pupil

15. Creating bump maps

16. Creating a specular map for the body

17. Creating a specular map for the armor

18. Creating incandescence maps

19. Final edits and exporting texture maps